In today’s Dub Hub:
- Warriors enter Sunday’s NBA Draft Lottery with the 11th-best odds for the number-one overall pick.
- Austin Rivers challenges Draymond Green to a 1-on-1 matchup amid their ongoing feud.
- Top NBA Draft prospect Darryn Peterson says high doses of creatine caused his midseason cramping issues.
This weekend marks an important date for the future of the Golden State Warriors.
The 2026 NBA Draft Lottery is set for Sunday, May 10 at 12:00 p.m. PT on ABC, as the league’s 14 lottery teams vie for the top spot in what is viewed as one of the strongest draft classes in recent history. For the Warriors, they enter the lottery with the 11th-best odds for the No. 1 overall pick at 2.0% after finishing the 2025-26 regular season with a 37-45 record.
Here’s a full look at the odds for every team entering
Sunday’s lottery:
According to the chart, Golden State holds a 9.4% chance of jumping into the top four. However, the Warriors’ most likely outcome is remaining at No. 11, where they currently hold a 77.6% probability of selecting. It should also be noted that there is a 12.6% chance they fall to No. 12 and a 0.4% chance they slide to No. 13.
While Golden State’s chances of landing the top pick remain slim, Sunday’s lottery results will still play a major role in determining the franchise’s direction as they attempt to balance competing around Stephen Curry while also preparing for the next era of Warriors basketball.
For more on this and other news around the NBA, here is our latest news round-up for Friday, May 8th:
Warriors News:
2026 NBA draft lottery: Odds for every team, potential picks | ESPN
No. 1 pick odds: 2% | Top-four pick odds: 9.4%
Most likely pick if they stay at No. 11: Karim Lopez, SF/PF, New Zealand Breakers
Similar to Milwaukee, the direction Golden State takes here will be indicative of where the franchise’s goals lie. The Warriors can try to continue to maximize the final phase of Stephen Curry‘s career with a more NBA-ready prospect, or they could take a longer view. Assuming they don’t move up, this would become an interesting juncture in the draft, with the top freshmen all potentially off the board.
Lopez might marry those two goals, with a good mix of size, skill, feel and pro experience for a teenage prospect. On the other end of the age spectrum, forward Yaxel Lendeborg should get a long look from the Warriors because of his versatility to plug in right away.
Austin Rivers challenges Draymond Green to 1-on-1 amid back-and-forth feud | NBC Sports Bay Area
After Austin Rivers responded to Draymond Green’s brutal comments regarding his career, the former NBA veteran added fuel to the fire by asking the Warriors star to prove his basketball talents in a non-team setting.
“Why don’t you play me 1-on-1, Draymond?” Rivers exclaimed on Tidal League’s “To The Baha” podcast. “You can’t do handoffs in 1-on-1. You can’t set no pick-and-roll in 1-on-1. So, all that extra talk was BS.”
ClutchPoints insider Brett Siegel’s update on Steve Kerr: “Everything stands in the direction of Steve Kerr being back”
NBA News:
Darryn Peterson says high doses of creatine led to cramping | ESPN
One of the top prospects in this year’s NBA draft spent much of his freshman season at Kansas trying to solve mysterious and sometimes debilitating cramping. But in an extended interview with ESPN this week, Peterson said that a new round of bloodwork and other tests after the college basketball season led his doctors to conclude that his use of high doses of creatine created the condition.
“I’d never taken it before [going to college],” Peterson said of the popular supplement which helps to increase muscle strength, power and growth. “But after the season I took two weeks off and they did tests which showed my baseline level was already high. So, they said when I dosed [a process of increasing a dose over time to create maximum benefit at the beginning of taking a supplement], it must’ve made the levels unsafe.”
Lakers, Austin Reaves meet with the officials following their 125-107 loss vs. the Thunder
In case you missed it at Golden State of Mind:
Warriors mailbag: The draft, the offseason, and Steve Kerr
I’d be surprised if they trade their first-round pick for anything other than a star player. It seems unlikely that they would want to trade down to get more draft picks, and put more young, raw players on the roster, though they’ll probably do something in the second round, because that’s just what they do. But with the first-round pick, they’ll want to get the best player they can, rather than multiple lesser players.
A post to end the week:
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